The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works ... and Various Original Pieces ... Never Before Published ...T. Cadell and W. Davis, 1804 |
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... Johnson at the same time favoured me by marking the lines which he furnished to Goldsmith's " Deserted Village , " which are only the last four : " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay , " As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole ...
... Johnson at the same time favoured me by marking the lines which he furnished to Goldsmith's " Deserted Village , " which are only the last four : " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay , " As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole ...
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... Johnson's - court , Fleet - street . " SAM . JOHNSON . " TO BENNET LANGTON , ESQ . AT LANGTON , NEAR SPILSBY , LINCOLNSHIRE . << DEAR SIR , " IN supposing that I should be more than commonly affected by the death of Peregrine Lang- ton ...
... Johnson's - court , Fleet - street . " SAM . JOHNSON . " TO BENNET LANGTON , ESQ . AT LANGTON , NEAR SPILSBY , LINCOLNSHIRE . << DEAR SIR , " IN supposing that I should be more than commonly affected by the death of Peregrine Lang- ton ...
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... confining his expences within his income ; and to do it more exactly , compared those - expences VOL . II , C 1766 . Ætat . 57 . Ætat . 57 . 1766. income which , to many DR . JOHNSON . 17 "His art of life certainly deserves to be known ...
... confining his expences within his income ; and to do it more exactly , compared those - expences VOL . II , C 1766 . Ætat . 57 . Ætat . 57 . 1766. income which , to many DR . JOHNSON . 17 "His art of life certainly deserves to be known ...
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... Johnson's - court , Fleet - street . " SAM . JOHNSON . " After I had been some time in Scotland , I men- tioned to him in a letter that " On my first return to my native country , after some years of absence , I was told of a vast ...
... Johnson's - court , Fleet - street . " SAM . JOHNSON . " After I had been some time in Scotland , I men- tioned to him in a letter that " On my first return to my native country , after some years of absence , I was told of a vast ...
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... Johnson's diary , that he was this year at Mr. Thrale's , from before Midsummer till after Michaelmas , and that he afterwards passed a month at Oxford . he had then contracted a great intimacy with Mr. Chambers of that University ...
... Johnson's diary , that he was this year at Mr. Thrale's , from before Midsummer till after Michaelmas , and that he afterwards passed a month at Oxford . he had then contracted a great intimacy with Mr. Chambers of that University ...
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